Weekend Project

A couple of weekends ago Hubby and I were busy people. We did the thing I've been wanting to do for a while now. We put in raised beds to plant a garden in.

We looked at the home improvement store and decided a kit would be too easy Drill Sergeant! Concrete blocks that you can slide the wood into that looks easy enough. But then we brought the wrong car and were not sure how we could get the wood to fit. So maybe just the blocks and rebar and we can plan it out...

Yeah I think this is the best spot for them.

We headed out another day to get the Cedar. Now I have bought wood before, I've been to lumber yards. I've never bought lumber for a raised bed. So we bought rough 2x12 Cedar. It smells amazing!!

Guess the concrete blocks were made for planed wood because our rough cut did not fit in the notch. and oh yeah we were not planning on getting 12 inch height either. Rework the plan again, if you could call the way I do things as planning. Shh Hubby, no comments from the peanut gallery yet.

We borrowed a belt sander to smooth the area we needed to fit and oh yeah wet wood does not sand as well as dry wood. Hubby had the brilliant idea the maybe we could just stack the blocks to make it look like we planned it that way. He's pretty smart that way and quite handsome too, don't ya think?

Not too shabby, looks like we made some good decisions. Oh you can see my nice Lemon Thyme plant too. Planted it last year and I still love it!

We had that bed for a week or so, and put the remaining wet wood in the garage to keep it from getting even wetter. It is the rainy season in Oregon, you know. My garage never smelt better!

Now we have two beds and I've planted chives and bought seeds. I need to plant some lettuce and cool weather things but hey look it is raining again. I do still love the rain.

If the garden produces anything I'll be happy. I'm looking on it as an experiment. I've never tried to garden in Oregon, but I'm on my way to learning now.